Ramesh, that’s a sad comment by Fareed Zakaria. The first time I ran across him was at an NR event for Margaret Thatcher about a decade back. He gave what I thought was frankly a bit of a suck-up speech, and at the end of it Mrs T said to me, “Isn’t he wonderful?” I muttered something non-commital into my Scotch. He does the lady a great injustice. Mrs Thatcher was obsessed with “what works”, but the difference between her and Mr Zakaria is that she didn’t believe elites have a monopoly of wisdom on that subject. Zakaria’s own ideological preference seems always to favor a sort of technocrat authoritarianism. Perhaps that’s a side-effect of flying around the world interviewing experts. Still, you have to admire a man who can type the words “It’s the age of Michael Bloomberg” with a straight face.